165, 166, FRANKWELL

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812NE FRANKWELL 653-1/10/325 (East side) 10/01/53 Nos.165, 166 AND 167

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Row of 3 shops now in use as 2. Early C16. Timber-framed partly encased in brick and roughcast render with plain tiled roofs. 3 stepped parallel gabled ranges to street, 2 storeys with additional basement storeys in right-hand section. 3-window range. Nos 166 & 167 now in single occupation. Flat-roofed shop extension projects forward of No.167, with 3-light casement window in gable above. 2 weatherboarded gables in side wall, possibly once dormer windows. No.166 has shop front with 2 doorways flanking central window, and square oriel mullioned and transomed window above. Upper storey has mock framing in small panels probably over original framing. No.165 has wide gable to street framed in tall panels (probably not original) with inserted shop front and early C20 shop display window on first floor. Casement window in gable apex which has balustraded studs below the tie beam, and raking struts over a collar. Hipped dormer in roof to side. Wide gable in north elevation of No.165, framed in square panels with long raking braces and bressumer over infilled brick ground floor. Central 12-pane sash window. Brick rear wing with central door and inserted double doors to right with projecting sill band continuing line of bressumer of original build. No.167 listed 19.9.72.

Listing NGR: SJ4886512843